Oh I needed that!

Starise, are you in the states? It seems to me we had much more snow when I was in school. I had 6 brothers and 2 sisters and we lined up a couple times a week to shovel the driveway and sidewalk.

I remember one Winter when my mother was in the hospital and I ice skated on the streets (two streets east) to go visit her. No cars could be on the roads. It was a cool thing to do as a kid. A lot of people were skating.

Another time I when I was a junior in high school I spent the night at one of my brothers. He was working nights and his wife was due anytime, so I spent the nights there with her, and walked to school from there. One morning we woke up to a blizzard and I walked down the middle of Main Street to get home. It was almost knee deep. Luckily, the shop my brother worked at at the time closed down real early and he was home that night, but I couldn’t go home til morning.

Where my house was, we basically owned 4 village lots, it spanned from the street in front of the house to the street behind us, two lots wide. My father got a bunch of plastic and tried to build is a skating rink. It didn’t work, snow filled it before we could freeze water but the snow make it real fun! Because our property spanned from one street to another, the neighbors wanted us to put a driveway in from one street to the other. LOL Did not happen.

I used to walk to the skating rink all the time and it still makes me sad that I can’t ice skate anymore. I would go in the morning, home for lunch, walk back and skate, walk home for dinner and walk back for the evening skate time. It did not matter how cold it was or snowy, I was out in it.

Now, I can’t stand the cold and snow. But, we don’t get as much and it is not as specific for the months we get it. It also will come and hit us hard and then the temps go up to Spring like temps, and if anything, it rains. Then the temp drops again, a ton of snow, like Friday night. We will have some days of freezing weather, and then back to Spring-like again. It is like we now have Sprinter, Summer and Fall instead of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. But, even Sprinter does give us as much snow as it did up until the late 1970’s mid 1980’s. Just in spirts, all at once. It is odd.

We don’t get the bad thunderstorms we used to get either. They kind of lessened around the late 1980’s and mid 1990’s. I remember because my kids noticed and longed for a good t-storm and they never came. Again, weird.

I don’t know why I dislike cold and snow so much now, even though snow storms are not nearly as fierce. Maybe because I do not drive on the Winter roads and we live in the country, meaning we drive for a load of bread, have to shovel the mailbox area or we won’t get mail and hope the plow does not hit it. Maybe, the cold just gets the bones more. Now, that last one makes no sense! I was a skinny minny, Mouse, when I was a kid and in the cold and snow and loving it. I do have a little more insulation now!

Oh well, what can you do? Spring has to come and stay in a few weeks. But, I would really like to see Winter wane to where we only have a small squall come through once in a while, not a Winter Storm. At least we got out internet back. Many don’t have it yet.

If the lakes got colder we wouldn’t get so much lake affect into the mid-Winter, but even that has lessened over the decades. We are close enough to get Lake Ontario and Lake Erie lake affect when the wind direction is right, but closer to Lake Ontario. Just have to wait it out. It is supposed to warm up a bit this coming week. Hurray!

Ugh, I should have used “Mouse” for my screen name! Cid is what my husband calls me, and I could not think of anything else.